DATE CYPHER FOR 1884, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 2441 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE SALMON-PINK AND IVORY-GROUND PILGRIM-BOTTLE, 'RÈVES'
DATE CYPHER FOR 1884, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 2441 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Of flattened bottle form edged by fluted ovolo and gilt egg-and-dart, the flaring neck flanked by pierced foliate handles, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a rectangular panel emblematic of 'Dreams' depicted as two putti divided by a sheer curtain, set on a gilt enriched brown and cobalt-blue quatrefoil reserve, the reverse with a similar slightly smaller panel of single putto gesturing for quiet, the short oval foot and neck gilt with oeil-de-perdrix
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Louis Marc Solon's Illustrated Journal records this vase as one of a pair completed between the 11th of February and the 11th of March 1885. Midst the handwritten entry for this pair above the design drawing is a parenthetical notation which reads (Mr. C.M.C. Funerals.-), a reference to the passing of Colin Minton Campbell who died at Woodseat, near Uttoxeter, on 8 February 1885. This notation is atypical, as almost all of the references in this journal are works related. It is therefore likely that this piece was made as a Memorial to his colleague and close friend Colin Minton Campbell.

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